DWP Digital: Strategic Supplier Market Engagement event round-up
On the 9 October we hosted the Department of Work and Pensions for a market engagement event. DWP have been looking to engage with industry on their technology strategy and commercial approach for their major tech programmes.
The aim of the event was to establish a more structured and proactive approach to market engagement across the Department’s tech landscape. DWP sought industry expertise to inform their strategy.
Matthew Bradley, Commercial Director for DWP kicked off the event, delighted that the event was something they were able to deliver to attendees – describing it as the start of a conversation, not the end of one.
DWP really want to fulfil ideas with the market that are based on their strategy, they want to guide industry to where they are going over the coming years. Attendees heard about who DWP are, what they do and the digital function, they heard about their Strategy and Key focus areas which hopefully provided an insight to where industry can support DWP – their want is to be a function that is highly capable and leading in their delivery – so they remain very reliant and interested in working with the market in order to deliver outcomes.
Attendees also heard about their Digital Innovation Strategy and about DWP’s In Life Management team – who are responsible for putting contracts in place and managing suppliers throughout their contract. Finally, the DWP team provided more insight into how industry can join up with DWP, including next steps and how attendees can take advantage of the information presented at the event.
Next steps include a feedback form inviting initial responses and feedback– this was sent to attendees following the event - there were various asks for input throughout the presentation. DWP is keen to hear as much as possible from industry so please do share your thoughts if you have any.
You can view the recording here.
Annie Collings
Annie is the Programme Manager for Cyber Resilience at techUK. She first joined as the Programme Manager for Cyber Security and Central Government in September 2023.
Ella Gago-Brookes
Ella joined techUK in November 2023 as a Markets Team Assistant, supporting the Justice and Emergency Services, Central Government and Financial Services Programmes, before progressing into Junior Programme Manager in January 2024.
Ellie Huckle
Ellie joined techUK in March 2018 as a Programme Assistant to the Public Sector team and now works as a Programme Manager for the Central Government Programme.
Heather Cover-Kus
Heather is Head of Central Government Programme at techUK, working to represent the supplier community of tech products and services to Central Government.
Jill Broom
Jill leads the techUK Cyber Security programme, having originally joined techUK in October 2020 as a Programme Manager for the Cyber and Central Government programmes. She is responsible for managing techUK's work across the cyber security ecosystem, bringing industry together with key stakeholders across the public and private sectors. Jill also provides the industry secretariat for the Cyber Growth Partnership, the industry and government conduit for supporting the growth of the sector. A key focus of her work is to strengthen the public–private partnership across cyber to support further development of UK cyber security and resilience policy.